Subject: Re: [bug#30970] Add package definition for screen message

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:46:07 +0200

Ton <[email-masked]> writes:

> Here is the package definition for screen message. A simple program to fill
> your screen with text input either as an argument to the program or input
> during execution.
>
> Built and tested on GuixSD Linux merlin 4.15.8-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
>
> It passes guix lint without errors.
>
> It builds 5 times deterministicly.
>
> Guix size says "total: 568.0 MiB"

Thank you for this patch, and for testing reproducibility and linting!
I think it can go to 'xdisorg.scm' instead of a separate module.  Can
you also add a copyright line for yourself?  Pseudonyms are fine.

Overall the patch LGTM, some nitpicks:

> From c6ddc41853ff22acb3923b221b8530a057875253 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tonton <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:45:07 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Add package definition screen message
>
> Built and tested on GuixSD Linux merlin 4.15.8-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
>
> It passes guix lint without errors.
>
> It builds 5 times deterministicly.
>
> Guix size says "total: 568.0 MiB"

Please see 'git log' for commit message conventions.

[...]

> +(define-public screen-message
> +  (package
> +    (name "screen-message")
> +    (version "0.25")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri
> +               (string-append
> +                "http://www.joachim-breitner.de/archive/screen-message/screen-message-"
> +                                  version ".tar.gz"))

Use HTTPS here, and on the home page.

> +              (sha256
> +               (base32
> +                "1lw955qq5pq010lzmaf32ylj2iprgsri9ih4hx672c3f794ilab0"))))
> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> +    (inputs `(("gtk3" ,gtk+)
> +              ("gdk" ,gdk-pixbuf)
> +              ("pango" ,pango)))
> +    (native-inputs `(("pkgconfig" ,pkg-config)))
                            ^^^
                         "pkg-config"

> +    (arguments
> +     `(#:make-flags (list (string-append "execgamesdir=" %output "/bin"))))
> +    (synopsis "Prints messages on your screen")

s/Prints/Print/

> +    (description "If you just want to disply a word or a short, possilby
                                                                        ^^^
Typo:

> +multi-line, text as large and as quickly as possible on your screen,
> +then “screen-message” is the right tool for you.")

Use @code{screen-message} instead of quotes.

However I would rewrite this to something along the lines of
"@code{screen-message} is a tool for displaying text on your screen.  It
will make the text as large as possible and display it with black color
on a white background."

This was shamelessly adapted from Debians description, feel free to
expand on it: <https://packages.debian.org/sid/sm>.

Can you send an updated patch please?  Thanks in advance!